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Reassessing sixteenth and seventeenth century written accounts of hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
Abstract While the North Atlantic’s five‐century hurricane history is among the most complete globally, the earliest centuries are poorly documented in the written record. This study reassesses a subset of sixteenth to seventeenth‐century tropical cyclones (TCs) through a systematic review of archival evidence, mainly from Spain’s colonial archive, the
William Gomez Pretel, Michael Chenoweth
wiley   +1 more source

Media in Crisis: Journalistic Norms in Natural Disaster Coverage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Nearing the end of 2017, the United States and the Caribbean were struck with back-to-back natural disasters that left the country in shock and turmoil.
Hall, Lindsey
core   +3 more sources

Temporal community change in stream ecosystems varies by assemblage across US climates

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecosystem properties are temporally dynamic. Temporal variability has been shown to decrease with increasing levels of biological organization (i.e. from population to community and ecosystem levels).
Megan C. Malish   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydroacoustic evaluation of spawning red hind (Epinephelus guttatus) aggregations along the coast of Puerto Rico in 2002 and 2003 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Red hind (Epinephelus guttatus) have been overfished in the Caribbean and were included with seven other regional grouper species deemed vulnerable to risk of extinction.
Johnston, Samuel V.   +5 more
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Abiotic variables drive different aspects of fish community trait variation and species richness across the continental United States

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Trait distributions provide insight into how niches overlap within a broader trait space. By integrating individual‐level trait observations from different communities, we can explore how facets of trait dimensionality vary across environmental conditions.
Alicia McGrew   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular Basis of Simalikalactone D Sensitivity in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells

open access: yesBiomolecules
Background/Objective: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer (BC) lacking targeted therapies and characterized by high tumor heterogeneity.
Annelis O. Sánchez-Álvarez   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: Factories and food stamps - the Puerto Rico model of development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Draft of book review for Clark University Geography Magazine, Anthropode: Factories and Food Stamps - the Puerto Rico Model of Development, by Richard Weisskopf.
Seidman, Ann
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hypoxia driven by Caribbean Sargassum accumulation events

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science
Sargassum accumulation events threaten coastal ecosystems across the Caribbean and have been associated with severe hypoxia. However, our understanding of Sargassum-induced hypoxia is limited by the lack of continuous monitoring of seawater dissolved ...
Jose Martinez Ortiz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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